More to the point, I don't think that club-jumping in order to score
championship points would be an issue at all in a practice session,
since there are no points to score.
I think the more difficult issue related to having a group of people
work all day so that the drivers don't have to is how to entice those
people to stand around in the sun all day if they don't get to drive.
Is the extra money that people are willing to pay in order to not work
sufficient to pay the workers to do their jobs?
I don't think so. Working an hour or two when you're already there to
drive just isn't that much of a hardship. Getting up at 6am, driving
45 minutes, and then standing in the sun and having cars whiz by you
all day for someone else's benefit sounds a lot less attractive. I'd
much rather chair an event, and Sherry has a hard enough time rounding
up event chairs!
I think that a practice session would be a good idea if it could be
pulled off (especially since the Sac Evolution schools don't seem to
be happening this year). Just don't get too fanciful -- figure out
how to do it *at all* first before you work on variations.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:30:39AM -0800, Pat Kelly wrote:
> Is this easy, as in easier said than done?
> --Pat K
> ----------
> >From: "Larry G. Word" <larry.word@printChannel.com>
> >To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>,
> <ba-autox@autox.team.net>, <iagreen@ucdavis.edu>, <Smokerbros@aol.com>
> >Subject: RE: practice session
> >Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 9:23 AM
> >
>
> >That would seem easy to fix, what other issues were there?
> >
> >Larry Word
> >666
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> >[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of John F. Kelly Jr.
> >Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:52 AM
> >To: ba-autox@autox.team.net; INTERNET:iagreen@ucdavis.edu;
> >Smokerbros@aol.com
> >Subject: Re: practice session
> >
> >
> >-------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
> >
> >Message text written by INTERNET:iagreen@ucdavis.edu
> >
> >"(People will
> >generally pay more if they don't have to work, at least in L.A. region) "
> >
> >-------------------- End Original Message --------------------
> >
> >This is the structure used by the no-longer-functioning (nor autocrossing)
> >clubs in the Northern California Sports Car Council.
> >
> >Each event was staged by a member club and their members staffed the event.
> >Said were barred from competing in their events as they were the "hosts."
> >This led to some games playing as people switched club affiliations in
> >order to score points in the NCSCC Championship. Some joined an
> >NCSCC-affiliated club (You had to belong to one in order to score points)
> >that didn't stage autocrosses and they avoided working events entirely. And
> >they won championships.
> >
> > Those clubs are, essentially, all gone.
> >
> > Maybe the reasons why that is the case will become clear to you in
> >the coming days?
> >
> >--John Kelly
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john@idsfa.net John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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